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The Kennedys: A family in the US election campaign

Either way, the opinion of the Kennedy family, as one of the most influential political dynasties in America, is still of great importance today. Barbara Perry explains that the name alone carries weight - with the name comes attention and then: "The money that comes with that," says Perry.

Barbara Perry

Why Robert F. Kennedy’s Jr.'s current presidential polling numbers might not hold up into November

“A variable that is so different from all these other people is the Kennedy name,” said Barbara Perry, an expert in presidential studies at the University of Virginia’s Miller Center. “There’s a lot of emotion around him that I would say was not there in the Anderson, Perot, (Ralph) Nader and Johnson cases.”

Barbara Perry

Comparing Biden and Trump on the global stage

The presidential election is poised to shape how the U.S. responds to significant global conflicts — from China to Eastern Europe and the Middle East. On the campaign trail, President Joe Biden and former President Donald Trump have touted their own records and highlighted their stark differences.

Spencer Bakich

A free trade pact could see strongest economic ties yet for China, Japan and South Korea. Can they make it happen?

“Closer market integration among these countries makes economic sense. Given China's economic challenges, reflected in the real estate slump, weak consumption and private-sector investment, and the pressure of deflation and growing debt, Beijing needs serious measures to boost its growth,” said Professor Syaru Shirley Lin, chair of the Center for Asia-Pacific Resilience and Innovation and research professor at the University of Virginia in the United States.

Syaru Shirley Lin

Forty Years Later, Biden Seeks to Echo Reagan’s Legacy of American Leadership

"Reagan has created a standard that may cause everything else to pale by comparison. But this remains an extraordinary point of possibility for President Biden — precisely because the subject is so historically relevant to this moment in time," said Russell Riley.

Russell Riley

David Sanger on the New Cold Wars

Eric hosts New York Times Chief Washington Correspondent David Sanger, author of The Inheritance, Confront and Conceal, The Perfect Weapon and most recently New Cold Wars: China's Rise, Russia's Invasion and America's Struggle to Defend the West. They discuss the tensions in the Biden-Zelensky relationship, the Biden Administration's efforts at "escalation management" during the war in Ukraine, and Russian nuclear threats and how seriously to take them.

Eric Edelman